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The site is great, the tools of analysis and presentation are amazing but the title is a bit grandiose. Imagine writing an article titled "The Structure of Sof
by senthil_rajasek 8y ago
The site is great, the tools of analysis and presentation are amazing but the title is a bit grandiose.
Imagine writing an article titled "The Structure of Software" and using code from one application to define the structure of all software.
I once watched 100 videos of top 100 comedians of the decade. I realized that no two comedians were alike.
I like to think that comedy is a place of anti-logic or no logic or beyond logic with room for non-sequitur and absurdism and hence no structure.
- cristianpascu 8y agoActually, not quite so. There's structure, otherwise it would be incomprehensible and people would not resonate so much with it. William James said that philosophy “sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar.” The same is true of standup comedy. Simon Critchley has written that both ask us to “look at things as if you had just landed from another planet”. [1] [1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/humor/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/humor/
- senthil_rajasek 8y ago"strange as if it were familiar" Don't you see the paradox you have introduced. What came first the strangeness or the familiarity? We are all very good at meaning/structure making post hoc.